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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
(NY Times)
Pacific Power: Oregon 50% RPS Will Barely Raise Customer
Rates through 2028 (Utility Dive)
California’s Regional Electricity Grid Plan on Hold (Los
Angeles Times, CA)
Tacoma to Sewer Customers: Stop Using Your Toilet as a
Trashcan (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA -
Paywall Advisory)
Half the Country Not Likely to Participate in EPA’s Clean
Energy Plan (Washington Examiner)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California’s Regional Electricity Grid Plan on Hold
- Alcoa Retraining Benefits Halt amid Washington State Backlog
- Fitch Rates Clark Public Utilities Bonds ‘A+’; Outlook Stable
- Fitch Rates Eugene Water & Electric Board’s Revenue Bonds ‘AA-’; Upgrades Outstanding Electric Bonds
- Asotin County PUD Official Gary Hicks Dies
- Marbled Murrelets Get Guarantees on Protected Critical Habitat
- For the Love of Oysters
- Tacoma to Sewer Customers: Stop Using Your Toilet as a Trashcan
- Stream Team Stewards Sought By Clark Public Utilities
- Pacific Power: Oregon 50% RPS Will Barely Raise Customer Rates through 2028
- Public Power Weekly Exclusive: Solar Tax Incentives Put Pressure on Some State Budgets
- Mason County Commissioners Set Hearing on Marijuana Cooperatives
- Despite Spike in Cannabis Sales, Awareness Funding Stays Flat
- Half the Country Not Likely to Participate in EPA’s Clean Energy Plan
- Oregon’s Emissions Plan Could Give Electric Transit a Boost
- How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
- Rural Electrical Cooperatives Turn to the Internet
- Data Centers’ Water Use Have Investors on High Alert
- Proposed Utah Facebook Data Center Location Revealed
- Hulu Dropping Free Video as It Prepares Cable TV Alternative
- Facebook Is Not a Technology Company
- Twitter Upsets American College Sports Teams as It Hands Over Their Hashtags to the Competing Nations at the Olympics
- Tips & Tricks to Get More Out of Google Maps
- Wasting Time on the Internet? Not Really
- Presidential Campaign: Clinton Makes Pitch for ‘Modern Grid’ In Las Vegas
- Delta Flights Resume after Power Outage Strands Passengers
- Delta’s Massive Computer Outage Is Part of a Much Bigger Problem
- Rock Blasting to Force Snoqualmie Pass Closures
- Ichiro Suzuki Reaches 3,000 Career Hits in Marlins’ Win over Rockies
- Perseid Meteor Shower Twice as Good This Year: Here’s How to Catch the Show
- Video: How to find Perseus
Tchotchke • \CHAWCH-kuh\ • Noun - Knickknack, trinket.
Like manic Costco customers wrenching their overflowing
shopping carts from the store on a Sunday afternoon, rabid prize locusts reeled
from the vendor hall at the trade association meeting…their “gift bags” bulging
with various and sundry tchotchkes. “One giveaway I could really have used,”
grunted one such forager, “was a free truss, with the vendor’s logo prominently
displayed.”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California’s Regional Electricity Grid Plan on Hold (Los
Angeles Times, CA)
Alcoa Retraining Benefits Halt amid Washington State Backlog
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Fitch Rates Clark Public Utilities Bonds ‘A+’; Outlook
Stable (BusinessWire)
Fitch Rates Eugene Water & Electric Board’s Revenue
Bonds ‘AA-’; Upgrades Outstanding Electric Bonds (BusinessWire)
Asotin County PUD Official Gary Hicks Dies (Lewiston
Tribune, ID)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Marbled Murrelets Get Guarantees on Protected Critical
Habitat (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
For the Love of Oysters (Cool Green Science)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tacoma to Sewer Customers: Stop Using Your Toilet as a Trashcan
(News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
Stream Team Stewards Sought By Clark Public Utilities (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Pacific Power: Oregon 50% RPS Will Barely Raise Customer
Rates through 2028 (Utility Dive)
Public Power Weekly Exclusive: Solar Tax Incentives Put
Pressure on Some State Budgets (American Public Power Association)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Mason County Commissioners Set Hearing on Marijuana
Cooperatives (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton,
WA – Paywall Advisory)
Despite Spike in Cannabis Sales, Awareness Funding Stays
Flat (Northwest Cable News Network)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Half the Country Not Likely to Participate in EPA’s Clean
Energy Plan (Washington Examiner)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Oregon’s Emissions Plan Could Give Electric Transit a Boost (Oregonian,
Portland)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
(NY Times)
Rural Electrical Cooperatives Turn to the Internet (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/technology/rural-electrical-cooperatives-turn-to-the-internet.html
Data Centers’ Water Use Have Investors on High Alert (Bloomberg
News)
Proposed Utah Facebook Data Center Location Revealed (Albuquerque
Business First, NM)
Hulu Dropping Free Video as It Prepares Cable TV Alternative
(Associated Press)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Facebook Is Not a Technology Company (The Atlantic Magazine)
Twitter Upsets American College Sports Teams as It Hands
Over Their Hashtags to the Competing Nations at the Olympics (The Telegraph, UK)
Tips & Tricks to Get More Out of Google Maps (Washington
Post)
Wasting Time on the Internet? Not Really (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Presidential Campaign: Clinton Makes Pitch for ‘Modern Grid’
In Las Vegas (E&E Publishing)
GENERAL NEWS
Delta Flights Resume after Power Outage Strands Passengers (Reuters)
Delta’s Massive Computer Outage Is Part of a Much Bigger
Problem (Washington Post)
Rock Blasting to Force Snoqualmie Pass Closures (Associated Press)
Ichiro Suzuki Reaches 3,000 Career Hits in Marlins’ Win over
Rockies (Associated Press)
Perseid Meteor Shower Twice as Good This Year: Here’s How to
Catch the Show (Christian Science Monitor)
Video: How to find Perseus (At-Bristol Science Centre)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Idaho Man Finds Mammoth Tusk While Digging on His Property
X-Ray Uncovers Hidden Portrait beneath Famed Degas Painting
Gobi Desert Race: Runner Trying to Adopt Dog Who Trotted
Alongside Him during Race
News Digest Follow Up: Creepy Lucille Ball Statue Known as ‘Scary
Lucy’ Is Finally Replaced
SONG OF THE DAY
Armand Assante - Beautiful Maria of My Soul (The Mambo Kings
Soundtrack)
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